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Run for your life! This giant mosquito is actually a display at the Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet, Florida, where I went for the first time back in August on my birthday. No one likes these nasty pests, but they do provide food for some animals. Unfortunately, WE provide food for them!
Ponce Inlet was once known as "Mosquito Inlet". One guess as to why that was. These little blood suckers come out in force at night here. Though renamed to be a little more tourist friendly, if you are on the dunes at night, I'm sure you'll still be dealing with mosquitoes.
After humans, the mosquito takes top honors as to being the most deadly creature on the planet. We fear things like snakes and spiders, but it's the tiny mosquito that has been responsible for the most deaths. It really is a killer!
Hard to imagine a critter measuring just about 3mm in length is able to create so much shit for us. These mosquitoes(female) have a badass reputation of spreading a host of deadly disease most noticeably, dengue fever. However, no matter how nasty they may seem, they are here for a very specific purpose. Nature has created this organism to play a vital role in the eco system which we are still trying to unravel.
No worries, these pics are taken under controlled condition, those nasty little critters are safely contained in a sealed plastic bottle for photography purpose.
This is the first time I've seen and examine a mosquito larva up close. The larvae as well as the later stage pupae wriggle and move up and down constantly to breath.
The larvae would feed on decaying plant material or any micro organism presence in the water for survival. The pupae stop feeding altogether while getting ready for its final metamorphosis journey.
2 hatched 12.4.22 followed by another 3 on 13.4.22. 2 on 14.4.22.
By 17.4.22 all the 7 mosquitoes that hatched died from starvation for science. RIP
taken at 1.5x magnification.
Total 7 pupae. Whole process from eggs to mosquito took about a week.
Some interesting take-away (NEA):
Under optimal conditions, the egg of an Aedes mosquito can hatch into a larva in less than a day. The larva then takes about four days to develop into a pupa, from which an adult mosquito will emerge after two days. Three days after the mosquito has bitten a person and taken in blood, it will lay eggs, and the cycle repeats.
Did you know?
1 Only the female Aedes mosquito bites, as it needs the protein in blood for its eggs to develop.
2 The mosquito becomes infective approximately seven days after it has bitten a person carrying the virus. This is the extrinsic incubation period, during which time the virus replicates in the mosquito and reaches the salivary glands.
3 Peak biting is at dawn and dusk
4 The average lifespan of an Aedes mosquito in nature is two weeks.
5 The mosquito can lay eggs about three times in its lifetime, and about 100 eggs are produced each time.
6 The eggs can lie dormant in dry conditions for up to about nine months, after which they can hatch if exposed to favourable conditions, such as water and food.
Behind the scene :
Discover these larva all by chance while conducting my frequent routine check on all my plotted plants for the very intention of combating larvae bleeding.
I'm fully aware of the notion of mosquito bleeding though, but never imagine it takes place in my house right on the 13th floor. A remote possibility that actually happens, what a chance.
The mosquito responsible must be a high flyer indeed. It did very very well in assuring the survival of its kind. Ironically, giving me a golden opportunity to study them up close in which otherwise their life cycle would have known to me at face value.
@bt panjang,sg
I do not know the species, but assume it is a male, because of the elaborate antennae.
Ich kenne die Spezies nicht, aber es scheint sich wegen der geweihartigen Antennen um ein Männchen zu handeln.
The summer heat has attracted a lot of mosquitoes at the widlife refuge in Alviso. I 've stopped going there for quite some time. It was almost unbearable as you approached the marshlands. This was a HDR shot a couple months ago before I stopped going there. I 'd probably wait out for another month or so.
Found in my Flickr archives. I just installed Elements 9 and my photos are stored on an unconnected external HD. I am short of time still, but managed to visit you all today (if I missed you let me know).
BTW, I bought CS5 (arrived today). When it came thet sent CS5 Extended which I think is CS5 plus more features like 3D imaging. Am I right ?
Female mosquito at 6,6x magnification; 224 shots stacked in Zerene Stacker. Unfortunately a lot of artifacts in the dark background …
Scaly mouth parts of a mosquito. Studio stack based on 128 images taken with a Canon 5DmkII and telezoom EF75-300mm at infinity, mounted with a microscope objective OlympusUplan10x/0,3. Artificial light reflected and diffused from 2 led lamps 5200°K.
On the way back from Tahoe, we opted to head over on CA-4, following along part of the route of the Death Ride.
Just east of the Pacific Grade Summit are the Mosquito Lakes, a pair of alpine lakes that attract both fishermen and photographers.
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Mosquito es un personaje de nuestra capital San Juan, persona humilde con el Don de Buena Gente!!
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Como de costumbre, Mosquito de camino a su trabajo, musico de calle!!!!
Big Mosquito Falls, 152 ft. It was a steep descent to get down here, and a bit dangerous because the path was slick with fresh snow, but I was able to carefully get to this awesome viewpoint. Beauty!
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Mosquitoes are at once beautiful and terrifying. It would be nice if the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus, had not been spread globally through international commerce. Leavenworth, Kansas, USA, June 5, 2021.
Mosquito River at the mouth into Lake Superior in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Northern Michigan
Microworld impressions by LitterART (c) 2016
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Mosquito (from the Portuguese meaning "small fly") is a common flying insect in the family Culicidae that is found around the world. There are about 3,500 species of mosquitoes. They have a pair of scaled wings, a pair of halteres, a slender body, and six long legs. The females of most mosquito species suck blood (hematophagy) from other animals, which has made them the deadliest disease vector known, killing millions of people over thousands of years and continuing to kill millions per year by the spread of infectious diseases.
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Mosquito A very old, skinny, slender, bent, drunk, cheerful old man, sitting full-length in shorts on a branch with giant long mosquito wings. Bent back. Very long, sharp nose. hugs a giant, transparent, very large bottle with transparent red juice, nose stuck in the bottle. Grotesque. Side view. Against the background of the forest. it's raining. gloomy.
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